Xvfb¶
Xvfb is an X server that can run on machines with no display hardware and no physical input devices. It emulates a dumb framebuffer using virtual memory.
https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6/doc/man/man1/Xvfb.1.xhtml
Available modules¶
The overview below shows which Xvfb installations are available per target architecture in EESSI, ordered based on software version (new to old).
To start using Xvfb, load one of these modules using a module load command like:
(This data was automatically generated on Fri, 06 Feb 2026 at 13:12:13 UTC)
| aarch64/generic | aarch64/a64fx | aarch64/neoverse_n1 | aarch64/neoverse_v1 | aarch64/nvidia/grace | x86_64/generic | x86_64/amd/zen2 | x86_64/amd/zen3 | x86_64/amd/zen4 | x86_64/intel/cascadelake | x86_64/intel/haswell | x86_64/intel/icelake | x86_64/intel/sapphirerapids | x86_64/intel/skylake_avx512 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xvfb/21.1.9-GCCcore-13.2.0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Xvfb/21.1.8-GCCcore-12.3.0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |
| Xvfb/21.1.6-GCCcore-12.2.0 | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x | x |